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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (left), Gov. Greg Abbott and House Speaker Dennis Bonnen are joined by state legislators at a press conference at the Governor’s Mansion.Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune

Kentucky-born Hall has been that rarest of songwriters — one who writes alone. Of the 54 country singles he racked up between 1967 and his “retirement” from chart combat in the mid-1980s, he wrote 42 unaided, including his seven No. 1s and 13 Top 10s.